Sun.May 17, 2020

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There is no vaccine for the climate crisis

Business Green

When the climate and ecological crises reach breaking point the world will have no vaccine in hand, so we must act now, argues Envision Group CEO Lei Zhang. As the clock struck midnight into New Year's Day and mankind entered the second decade of the 21st Century, few expected a plague to sweep the globe within weeks that would spare almost no country from its viral ravages.

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Santé: Pernod Ricard pulls forward date for phase-out of single use point-of-sale plastics

Business Green

Owner of Absolut Vodka and Jameson has delivered sustainable materials guidance to its 90 affiliates in order to ensure that single-use plastic is eliminated from point-of-sale items next year. French drinks giant Pernod Ricard has moved forward a target to ban single-use plastic in point-of-sale items to 2021, four years ahead of the original schedule.

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Cider-apple Farmers? Perceptions and Knowledge of Biological Control

Ideas 4 Sustainability

Originally posted on SCIENCE FOR SUSTAINABILITY : Agricultural production is reliant on regulating ecosystem services. One important yet underexplored regulating service is biological control, the reduction of one organism population by another one. While biological control can benefit agriculture in diverse ways, it is decreasing worldwide. In a recent study, Martínez-Sastre et al.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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Webinar - A Vision for NSF Earth Sciences 2020-2030: Earth in Time

Green Market Oracle

A free report release webinar titled "Vision for NSF Earth Sciences 2020-2030: Earth in Time," will take place on Tuesday, May 19th from 2-3pm EDT. It will explore the contents of the NSF Earth Sciences report which identifies priority research questions as well as the initiatives and partnerships required to answer them. It will also provide recommendations to plan and support research over the next decade.

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Government pushes back deadline for clean power contract consultation

Business Green

Consultation proposes extending support offered for low carbon electricity projects via Contracts for Difference scheme by a further four years. Energy sector stakeholders are being given an additional week to have their say on sweeping proposed changes to the UK's flagship clean power contracts scheme, with the government having pushed back the consultation deadline to take account of disruption wrought by the coronavirus.

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Reasons to be positive

Business Green

The story of businesses delivering strong growth and profits while helping to tackle climate change, biodiversity collapse, and poverty has a long way to run, argues Liontrust's Peter Michaelis. Within the past couple of months, country after country has gone from business as usual to full lockdown. Governments and central banks have had to intervene to support their economies and people, trashing any notion of 'small government'.

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The 6th Vegetarian Food Asia and the 9th LOHAS Expo

Eco-Business

Vegetarian Food Asia and LOHAS Expo 2020, the can't miss event for vegetarian and green living lifestyle lovers, will be held on 31 Jul - 2 Aug 2020 at Hall 5E, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.

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Interview with Brian Czech: the impossibility of a perpetually-growing economy

Low Impact

Today I’m talking with Brian Czech, the president of CASSE (Centre for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy). He served in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from 1999-2017, and as a visiting professor of natural resource economics in Virginia Tech’s National Capitol Region. He is the author of Supply Shock , Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train , and The Endangered Species Act: History, Conservation Biology, and Public Policy , as well as over 50 academic journal articles.

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#StayHomeAndSwap Series - Swap Unkind Food Habits During Covid-19

Eco-Business

Has Covid-19 got you thinking about food a whole lot more? We sure have been! How should our food habits change to build immunity and reduce waste? How will the food industry react to ensure food safety and security?

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Electrofuels Are the Future: The Driving Force to Decarbonizing Heavy Transport

Speaker: Ayesha Choudhury - Senior Vice President, Head of Capital Markets at Infinium

With the first wave of the energy transition, renewable energy sources (such as solar and wind) have begun replacing coal power generation. However, some sectors are lagging behind and struggling to decarbonize more than others, including large-scale transportation like commercial aviation, shipping, and rail transit. Electrofuels (aka eFuels) are the next generation of solutions to help the hardest-to-abate sectors pivot from their reliance on fossil fuels.

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I Will Make Covid-19 Respect Me

CleanTechnica

Everyone wants things to reopen. Nobody is happy having to shelter in place or being concerned about money or not being able to do what we have been doing all our lives. However, Covid-19 is just not cooperating.

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Global push urged for Covid-19 vaccine could help climate too

Eco-Business

Building the international cooperation needed to swiftly create and distribute a coronavirus vaccine could help with other threats too.

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How Do We End The Covid-19 Crisis? A Few Thoughts

CleanTechnica

"It’s like driving at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way." — E.L. Doctorow.

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Global heating means a wetter and warmer world

Eco-Business

A wetter and even warmer world will result from faster global warming. The evidence is in the sands of time.

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor

With 191 country signatories to the Paris Climate Agreement now hard at work in the race to zero carbon by 2050, much of the heavy lifting in ecosystem sustainability falls on the shoulders of the world's densely populated urban centers. This conversation considers how today's AI-enabled simulation media, such as AR/VR, can be effectively applied to accelerate learning, understanding, training, and solutions-modeling to sustainability planning and design.

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Why The Survival Of Traditional Carmakers Is Far From Certain

CleanTechnica

In theory, nobody knows more about making cars than the traditional internal-combustion-engine (ICE) carmakers, and so EVs made by these companies should be the ones busying our streets a decade from now. But the transition from ICE cars to EVs is not just a technological shift within a domain, like the transition from two-wheel-drive sedans to four-wheel-drive SUVs.

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Lithium-Sulfur Batteries To Help Electrify Brazil’s Bus Fleets

CleanTechnica

Lithium-sulfur batteries are getting more competitive with cobalt driven lithium-ion batteries. The use of lithium-sulfur chemistries can actually bring down costs.

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Prosun Solar Announces Highest Cell Efficiency 345–360W Solar Panel For Residential Markets

CleanTechnica

The highly anticipated next-generation technology solar panel, freshly named "Tarzan Series," will soon be available for businesses and homeowners in Australia. Tangshan Haitai New Energy Technology Co. Ltd has raised the bar again by introducing the highest cell efficiency 345-360W solar panels available today for residential markets. This has been achieved through new patent-pending technology, raising efficiency from the standard 16% to above 20%.

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Watch Elon Musk’s AMA With Hack Club Students

CleanTechnica

With the COVID-19 pandemic, Elon Musk's name has been splashed all over the headlines — much of it related to controversial posts on Twitter. Lost amidst the thunder and lightning erupting from Musk's tweetstorms, was a little-publicized AMA with Hack Club. In short, this is must-see TV. In fact, it might be Musk's best interview ever.

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How Digital Transformation will Bend the Curve of the Linear Economy Toward the Circular

Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute

The Climate 4.0 Economy. Climate change is here. We see it in many ways already. Weather catastrophes: Texas freezing over, the wildfires of California, the increasingly unpredictable violence and frequency of hurricanes, the rapid melting and disappearance of polar ice caps. Much more evidence all around us. What can we do in our corporate organizations, in our homes and communities, to change the current course?

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US Auto Sales Down 496,000 In 1st Quarter

CleanTechnica

If you had asked me 4 months ago if 1st quarter US auto sales would be down 495,732, nearly half a million units, in the quarter as a whole compared to the 1st quarter of 2019, I'd think you were crazy.

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“Where’s The Bloody Charge Point?” — Urban Electric Pop-Up Charger

CleanTechnica

Urban Electric finds non-EV drivers are pleased with its sublimely designed invisible EV infrastructure. When not in use, it disappears and retracts, fully retreating underground.

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New Way To See How Much Methane Is Being Released From Arctic Lakes

CleanTechnica

There's a new way to see how much methane is being released from Arctic lakes. Using synthetic aperture radar (SAR), a research team at the University of Alaska Fairbanks was able to study satellite images differently.

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Tulsa Or Austin? Both Are Reportedly Finalists For Next Tesla Factory

CleanTechnica

According to news reports, Austin and Tulsa are the two finalists for the privilege of hosting the next US Tesla factory.